CIID 09/10: Physical Computing

Physical Computing

Following our two weeks of Processing, we turned our attentions to the physical: prototyping with electronics, using the Arduino platform as a basis for our experimentation. From code, screens, and prints to objects, electricity, sensors.

Posted at 12am on 21/01/10 | 1 comment | Filed Under: Academic, CIID, Design, Update read on

CIID 09/10: Computational Design

Computational Design

I’ve fallen behind with my updates; doing has taken over from writing about what has been done. Nonetheless, a brief summary of the next course on our programme – I’ll try to catch up. “Exploring the manifold potential of software” is how this course on computational design, taught by Patrick and Dennis from Berlin based The Product, was described. In short, we were introduced to programming and code in a design context, and explored how this tool – new to some – could be applied to the context of design – new to others.

Posted at 9pm on 30/12/09 | no comments | Filed Under: Academic, CIID, Design, Update read on

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Mayo Nissen is a designer interested in the intersections and interplay between industrial design, service thinking, and interaction design, and developing strategies across and beyond these disciplines to have a lasting, positive impact on the world. He’s lived on a boat and gone to school in a castle, as a young child spoke fluent Spanish and then forgot it all, studied design on a campus noted for its 60s brutalist architecture, and takes great pleasure from finding useful things in skips.

He is currently trying to combine all of the above at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, and before that recently graduated with a degree in Industrial Design from Brunel University in London. He doesn’t know what future might actually hold. It’s more exciting that way.

Please feel free to get in touch.


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